Internet History Podcast

Summary Paul Sagan has had a long and illustrious career, which includes: 1) stints working on the Full Service Network, that interactive tv initiative in Orlando …

Summary There’s a certain romance surrounding dorm room startups. From Microsoft, to Dell, to Facebook, there’s something about the audacity of building a company before …

Summary Today we’re going to talk a bit about alternate Internets. In previous episodes, we have outlined how, going back to the 1970s and 80s, …

Summary Dale Dougherty was the organizer of the world’s first ever web developers conference, the World Wide Web Wizards Workshop in July of 1993. This was …

Summary If you’ll remember in Episode 32, we explored the early digital media startups like Salon, Slate, Suck, Pathfinder, etc. One site that was mentioned, …

Summary I don’t think very many people, twenty years ago, would have imagined that maps, location technology and the like would prove to be so …

Summary Tom Hadfield was the founder of Soccernet, which is still the premiere soccer (football!) website in the world. But just as the title says, …

Summary: In the early 1990s, Brad Silverberg was one of the key champions of the Internet within Microsoft. As the first ever Senior Vice President …

Summary: One of the big trends of recent years in the tech space has been the rise of delivery startups like Instacart and Postmates and …

Summary: Martin Nisenholtz is a digital media pioneer. He founded perhaps the first digital marketing group at Olgilvy and Mather all the way back in …